It would seem that marketing was not one of your responsibilities in past roles
Definitely not, I was always in strong technical roles - any pointers where to start with marketing? :)
Readit Newsshinypenguin commented on Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work? · Posted by u/shinypenguin
shinypenguin commented on Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work? · Posted by u/shinypenguin
6 week contract at my company (not sure what your skillset is though): https://zinkworks.teamtailor.com/jobs/5678393-dba-graphdb-6-...
Thank you for the link, sadly I don't have enough experience with graphdb, so it's outside of my skillset.
shinypenguin commented on Ask HN: Where do seasoned devs look for short-term work? · Posted by u/shinypenguin
Any niche? I mean, possibly large-scale data processing, yet I've seen people go more niche than that. In other words if your resume has 5+ years in one particular industry then that might be whom to target.
My niche is basically - I'm building distributed systems with minimal external dependencies that are fast and work reliably on the minimal amount of hardware/complexity. I do focus mainly on data processing and gathering.
The result is, that my client does not need that many servers or that big of a devops team to manage the service and it's reliable and scalable.
For example, I have build events gathering distributed system in Elixir (without external systems) that handled 930m events (33k reqs on peak hours) per day on 2 dedicated servers and that was only because minimal HA was required. It resulted in processing and aggregating of few billions of rows per day, in almost real time (few seconds behind realtime). It's still up to this day, few years later with only outages being updates of OS and Elixir/erlang updates to the app.
I love learning and understanding things - do you know of any niche that would fit mine and where I could go deeper with my knowledge and experience?
shinypenguin commented on Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on? · Posted by u/jackedEngineer
I'm deeply engaged in rewriting my own data processing software from Elixir to C. I've already reduced the number of dedicated servers from 3 to 0.1 while scaling traffic and handling larger amounts of data. My goal is to optimize it for Raspberry Pi, just for fun... and it's also more ecologically friendly this way :)
By the way, I'd appreciate a programming partner with whom I can discuss security issues in C code. I would gladly exchange code review sessions. Is anyone interested here?